A pseudoscience invented (founded?) by Polish artist (and US immigrant) Stanislav Szukalski (1893?-1987) in a 39-volume work. Zermatism maintains that all human culture derived from Easter Island after the Deluge, that all languages derive from a single source (the Protong) and all art is a variation on a few themes that can be boiled down to a single series of universal symbols. Zermatism explains the differences in races and cultures by claiming that they are due to inter-species miscegenation - according to Szukalski the first humans were nearly perfect but they mated with Yeti to dilluting results.